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A Portland Artist's Portraits Layer the Ambiguities of Photography and Gender

Lorenzo Triburgo merges transgender men and corny, Bob Ross–style landscapes in portraits that playfully puncture assumptions about men, women, landscape, and photography.

05/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Slide Show: Human, Nature

05/18/2012

Scene & Heard

Spider Woman

A Cirque du Soleil contortionist talks about Portland and life on the road.

05/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Review: Imago Theatre’s ‘The Black Lizard’

The English premiere of the classic Japanese jewel heist satire seduces but occasionally stumbles over its own obi in this noir-thriller-erotic-kabuki mash-up. Thru June 2

05/17/2012 By Aaron Scott

album of the week

Listen to What Hearts Debut Album

Hear the album now on OPB , and plan to see them at Mississippi Studios on Sunday!

05/17/2012 By Anne Adams

pagans and los angelenos

The Oregon Symphony Gets Dark and Seedy for Its Closing Concerts

The Symphony takes on Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and John Adam’s City Noir for its Sunday and Monday performances

05/16/2012 By Aaron Scott

grab your pompoms, girls!

Bring It On: The Musical Goes to Broadway Courtesy of Oregon-born Theater Wunderkind

05/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

no reason to be down

Tomorrow Only: $30 Tickets to ‘It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues’

05/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

c'est bon!

"Portland Weird" in Paris: Artists Report

New Paris-based festival "Keep Portland Weird" hosted a bunch of Portland artists and reportedly spoiled them rotten. We asked our correspondents: Have we got a new sister city, or is our hometown’s hip oeuvre officially "over?

05/10/2012 By Aaron Scott and Anne Adams

your wednesday morning listening alert

Listen to Gossip’s New Album (and also the Dandy Warhols)

05/09/2012 By Aaron Scott

twitterdelic

Live-Tweet Review: Candide

Opens at the Keller on Friday.

05/08/2012 By Aaron Scott

political theater?

Profile Theatre’s Latest Inspiration

The theater company that devotes each season to a single dramatist’s voice sets its sights on South African playwright Athol Fugard

05/08/2012 By Anne Adams

about time, right?

Culturephile is on Twitter!

And to celebrate, we’re taking you behind the scenes at Portland Opera’s Candide dress rehearsal tonight for "Eat, tweet, drink and draw." (Say what?!)

05/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

a moving philosophy

Mizu Desierto’sDown-To-Earth Dance

Releasing the Local Culture Project documentary last Friday and prepping for the upcoming 1 Festival, Portland’s premier butoh curator continues to preach dance-life integration.

05/07/2012 By Anne Adams

gallery grazing

First Thursday Sampler

05/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

noted

Greylag Songwriter Explains Himself (sort of)

Andrew Stonestreet, frontman of a burgeoning band, preaches self-betterment but lets his music do most of the talking.

05/03/2012 By Anne Adams

it takes a village

Review: The Storm In The Barn

Oregon Children’s Theater’s dust-bowl fable is fertile ground for historical discussion and aesthetic appreciation.

05/02/2012 By Anne Adams

resisting the doctors orders

Review: Next to Normal

Artists Repertory’s production of the hit musical about overmedication felt like it’s on too much Prozac. Thru June 3

05/01/2012 By Aaron Scott

a democratic dictatorship

Vote for Portland’s Maker Overlord

05/01/2012 By Aaron Scott

creative cuts

An arts-focus school with just one arts teacher?

A school wide meeting tomorrow to save two of Buckman Elementary School’s three arts teachers from the pink slip.

04/30/2012 By Aaron Scott